以往Hadoop似乎就是大数据的代名词。不过最近随着大数据应用的深入，大家已经越来越倾向于仅仅把它看成是大数据的一个存储工具了。 不过这并不一定就是坏事。把Hadoop当作廉价有效的存储正好是Hadoop下一阶段演进的的完美起点。今年夏天就要亮相的Hadoop 2.0 ...

What are some of the cool things in the 2.0 release of Hadoop? To start, how about a revamped MapReduce? And what would you think of a high availability (HA) implementation of the Hadoop Distributed ...

Back in the 1800s John Godfrey Saxe wrote a famous poem about six blind men trying to discover what an elephant is by touching a part and describing it. Saxe observes that, “each was partly in the ...

The Hadoop specialist has announced the general availability of Hortonworks Data Platform 2.0 for Windows, which is designed to bring the power of Hadoop 2.0's YARN-based architecture to Windows data ...

Big Data database provider RainStor Inc. today released a new version of its software that includes an archive application for storing data long-term on Hadoop 2.0. The company is known for managing ...

The boys at Hortonworks eat, sleep and live Hadoop, and there’s a feeling they’ll never be satisfied. Not because they, and other Apache Hadoop committers, think that the Open Source Big Data ...

Hadoop firm Hortonworks has been busy. After its IPO in December, and the controversy of creating the Open Data Platform with the likes of Pivotal and IBM, it's just announced a new acquisition, and ...